KevinMD March 7, 2022
Just as we begin to exit the latest surge of the global COVID-19 pandemic another challenge to health care is appearing—the efforts to combat physician burnout.
One example of a proposed solution is the Clinician Experience Project, which is now marketed to improve health care organizations’ patient satisfaction scores. In the midst of the worst global pandemic in 100 years, it is widely recognized that physician burnout is a widespread problem. Maybe you achieved a new high score on the burnout survey? Possibly you feel undervalued and overworked? Depressed? Considering early or premature retirement? Worse yet, profound despair and discouragement? Without question, stress, anxiety, and physician burnout are real, pervasive problems in medicine only worsening in the last two years.
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